Ko Aoraki te maunga. Ko Opihi te awa. Ko Zealandia te waka. Ko Ngāti Airani, ko Ngāti Ingarangi ngā iwi. Ko Tina McTear ahau.

I have been working therapeutically with young people and families for over twenty-five years, starting at Christchurch Hospital. I moved to London and worked in the areas of refugee support, child protection and three years in adult mental health - crisis assessment and intervention. Back in Aotearoa, and for a while in Melbourne, I worked in several Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, providing psychiatric assessment and intervention. In Christchurch I worked at the STOP Children’s Programme as a Child Therapist and the Adolescent Programme as a Family Therapist.

Alongside this work I have been employed as a Clinical Lecturer in Family Therapy for the University of Otago and provided training in Family Therapy through Canterbury Family Therapy Associates. I have been supervising students and professionals for the past twenty years.

Kea Family Therapy was established in 2020 in response to the increased need for therapeutic services in Canterbury following the earthquakes, fire, shootings, and the global pandemic.

Why Keas? They are curious, intelligent, social and a little bit naughty! They are native to the South Island and live in the mountains which I love to explore.